Sentences with phrase «first presidential run»

And after more than a year of uncharacteristic restraint — a notable shift from eight years ago, when his simmering instincts often burdened wife's first presidential run — former President Bill Clinton is silent no more.

Berman first hooked up as a political organizer for Obama during his first presidential run in 2008.

Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.

In 2008, as director of analytics for Obama's first presidential run, the former Google Chrome and Google AdWords product manager was tasked with figuring out which data and calls to action on the campaign's website would drive people to contribute.

Not exact matches

Trump's long - running feud with Fox News - turned - NBC News anchor Megyn Kelly began after the first presidential primary debate, when he tweeted that «she had blood coming out of her wherever» while Kelly was questioning him.

«In order to unleash the talents of the American people, we understand that you can't look to government to solve all our problems; you can't trust the market,» says Hillary Clinton as she takes the stage in her first appearance as a principal of the recently renamed Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, while speculation about her 2016 presidential run continues to swirl.

Conway was the first woman in U.S. history to run a winning presidential campaign.

At the first 2016 presidential debate, in late September, Cuban said there was «no possible way» he'd run.

It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

Michael Bloomberg's decision to endorse Hillary Clinton for the presidency very much reflects his belief — first articulated in a Bloomberg View column earlier this year — that Donald Trump «has run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign» the former New York mayor can remember, «preying on people's prejudices and fears.»

President Obama's first debate In the run - up to the first presidential debate, President Obama enjoyed a comfortable lead over GOP challenger Mitt Romney.

Meyers wasn't the first to suggest he had a role in Trump's presidential bid; the 2011 dinner was a major part of a New York Times article from March examining Trump's decision to run.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

As far as most commentators are concerned, the first round of the French presidential elections, due to take place on April 23, will be a race to see who faces the far - right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the run - off in May.

The two centrist parties end up at the bottom in the first round of the presidential election, setting up an epochal run - off between Ben Abbes and Le Pen.

And in synthesizing her view of Methodism's social gospel, Clinton's remarks seemed to come close to describing her presidential thought process, where the former first lady has acknowledged she is thinking about running for president in 2016.

Gallup first asked Americans about support for a Mormon presidential candidate in 1967 when Romney's father, George Romney, was running for president.

Who she is: Bachmann was Minnesota's first female Congresswoman, and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, dropping out six months into the race.

From the Wall Street Journal,» The Postmodern President ``, wherein our president's postmodernism is defined thus, «he's running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to the observable universe.»

Being a former first lady, and one of the front running presidential candidates, Zellner says security will be tight.

Sen. Rand Paul (Ron Paul's son) is the first Republican to assemble a network in all 50 states as a precursor to a 2016 presidential run — the latest sign that he is looking to build a more mainstream coalition than the largely ad hoc one that backed his father's unsuccessful campaigns.

The party first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's second presidential run in 2000.

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

Liberia's Supreme Court on Monday put a presidential run - off on hold until the electoral commission can investigate claims of irregularities and alleged fraud in last month's first round of voting.

Geraldine Ferraro gathers with her family at a hotel in New York as they await returns of the presidential election in 1984, when she became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

(His main competitor in this respect, California's Jerry Brown, is 79 years old and first ran for his party's presidential nomination in 1976.)

Cuomo's name is frequently mentioned as a possible Presidential contender in 2016, that is if former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't run.

(CNN)-- In the latest installment of CNN = Politics Daily, Barack Obama built his campaign on «change» - change in Washington, change in the way candidates run a presidential campaign, and change in the nation's history when he is sworn as the first African - American president.

Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey first met Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2014 when Trump was considering a gubernatorial run.

Reports filed on Tuesday also showed how well a fractured and crowded Democratic field of challengers was doing raising money against Walker, who is running for a third term this year and is on the ballot for the first time since his failed presidential bid.

MONROVIA (Reuters)-- Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential run - off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country's first democratic transition in over 70 years.

A Democrat first appointed to the Senate in 2009 to fill the vacancy created by Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state, Gillibrand has been considered a potential presidential candidate herself, though she has denied having an interest in running.

So far, Revere America ads are running in New York (Rep. John Hall in NY - 19 was the first target) and New Hampshire, which is, of course, home to the first - in - the - nation presidential primaries, further fueling speculation that Pataki plans to use this PAC as a vehicle to launch another White House run in 2012.

Flanked by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — whose «political revolution» had free college education as its cornerstone — Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his first State of the State proposal: making New York State public colleges tuition - free, in his latest apparent effort to burnish his progressive credentials ahead of a possible 2020 presidential run.

Mr Akufo - Addo, also 64, from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the first round of the presidential election but not by enough to avoid the run - off.

Supporters of raise the age gained some energy a little before 9 p.m., when the Daily News ran an editorial from Van Jones and Jessica Jackson Sloan arguing that the issue was Cuomo's «first presidential test.»

A commander - in - chief forum held in NYC last night was the first time Clinton and Donald Trump shared a stage during this presidential campaign, and was as close to a dry run for the critical first presidential debate on Sept. 26 as they will get.

Trump wasn't Long Island Rep. Peter King's first choice for the Republican presidential nominee, but the congressman, who briefly flirted with his own long shot presidential run, said the presumptive nominee is better than his Democratic alternative.

Alternative vote Alternative vote means that voters rank candidates first and second, and the two candidates with the most votes contest an instant run - off (as with the Mayor of London or French Presidential elections).

«First of all, if he was running, he wouldn't tell anyone until after the presidential election.»

Mr Salmond has run a textbook presidential campaign to overhaul his party's double - digit poll deficit of just a few months ago: opinion surveys now suggest he is on course for a second term as first minister.

At first, we didn't have a lot of money, and we certainly did not have anything close to the kind of staffing needed to run a national presidential campaign.

Republican Mike Gallagher, a former Marine who helped advise Gov. Scott Walker on national security during his brief presidential bid, is running his first race.

In short, for the first time since the 2008 campaign when she was the vice-presidential running mate to GOP presidential candidate John McCain, Palin is supported by a political operation befitting someone considering a presidential run.

While speaking on the floor, Barron said «it's time for a black speaker» and referred to the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm — the first African - American woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate for a major party nomination and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Tomorrow is the first round of what could be the most consequential presidential electon in half a century; right - wing nationalist Marine Le Pen of the National Front, abhorred by most French academics, is expected to proceed to the 7 May run - off easily.

In the 2002 French presidential election, for example, so many left - wing candidates stood in the first round that all of them were eliminated, leaving two right - wing candidates, Jacques Chirac and Jean - Marie Le Pen, to contest the run - off.

After a career that includes stints teaching high school history, vetting nominees for President Clinton's first presidential administration, running a couple of businesses (Edison Schools and Sangari Global Education), and helping Joel Klein reinvent New York City's education system, he is arguably one of the most seasoned education - reform leaders in the land.

In the run up to the 2008 presidential election (and before we could get too deep in the education work), Be the Change's first campaign, an effort to expand national and community service called ServiceNation, started getting real traction.

If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.